FOUNTAIN, Fla. (AP) - A Florida Panhandle woman has been charged with murdering her husband. ...more

November 16, 2009

Bay County sheriff's deputies used a Taser to subdue an escaped emu named Plop-Plop. ...more

August 22, 2008

Police say a registered sex offender from Georgia said he killed a 13-year-old girl whose body was discovered by a maid in a hotel room. ...more

July 12, 2008

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) _ Six Panhandle counties have a new interim chief medical examiner. ...more

July 2, 2008

TAMPA The Polk County Sheriff's Office Sheriff's Training and Respect program – formerly the Polk County Juvenile Boot Camp – will close this month, deputies say. ...more

June 20, 2008

A former juvenile boot camp guard who was exonerated by a jury in the death of a teenager was offered a new position with the Bay County Sheriff's Office but turned it down, the sheriff said. ...more

February 4, 2008

A former juvenile boot camp guard exonerated by a jury in the beating death of a Panama City, Fla., teenager sued the Bay County Sheriff's Office on Friday claiming his due process rights were violated when he was fired. ...more

February 2, 2008

If ever two officials deserved to be booted from the public dole, it's former Bay County Medical Examiner Charles Siebert and former Florida Department of Law Enforcement chief Guy Tunnell. ...more

January 4, 2008

Longtime Florida Panhandle lawman Guy Tunnell took fire from critics statewide in 2006 when he compared the Rev. Jesse Jackson to outlaw Jesse James and Barak Obama to terrorist Osama bin Laden. ...more

December 30, 2007

Intense pressure from then-Gov. Jeb Bush, civil rights activists and attorneys for a dead teen's parents did not influence the conclusions of the second autopsy on the boy, the doctor who performed it testified Friday. ...more

October 6, 2007